PROFILE, 2016-2017 NCSSM ONLINE PROGRAM

North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics Online offers a supplemental, two-year, sequenced honors program that provides the NCSSM experience to students enrolled at their local schools. NCSSM Online, begun in 2008, provides valuable preparation for college along with a learning community of accomplished, motivated peers. Rigorous curriculum. NCSSM is a constituent campus of the University of North Carolina system. Faculty hold advanced degrees in their content area of expertise and teach advanced courses in a college-like environment. Students are encouraged to work independently and build thier work ethic while learning new skills.

Students take NCSSM Online courses outside of school or dual enroll the courses with their local school. Students take 1-2 courses per semester and earn a certificate for meeting program requirements. Shorter Accelerator and seminar courses explore special topics such as mechanatronics, neuroscience research, and the research process.

Concentrations. Students who graduate from their local school and complete at least four NCSSM Online courses for credit and earn at least a C- as a final grade receive an NCSSM academic certificate noting their concentration.

Extracurriculars. NCSSM Online provides numerous leadership and extracurricular opportunities to students, ranging from clubs and student government to presiders at its Ethics Conference.

Learn more: ncssm.edu/online-program

NCSSM Online at a glance

Applicants who became finalists in the online program’s Class of 2017

28%

Cost to students for NCSSM Online tuition and supplies

$0

Class of 2017 students who were in top 5% of their class when admitted

74%

Students who choose to earn an honors certificate of completion. Of these, 40% choose an academic concentration.

92%

High school seniors who make up the NCSSM Online Class of 2017

157

North Carolina counties represented by NCSSM Online’s Class of 2017

57

We challenge what’s possible.

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Critical Reading

Average SAT scores, NCSSM Online Class of 2017

Albion CollegeAmerican UniversityAppalachian State UniversityBrown UniversityBryn Mawr CollegeCampbell UniversityCape Fear Community CollegeCapitol Technology UniversityColorado Mountain CollegeCreighton UniversityDartmouth CollegeDavidson CollegeDuke UniversityEast Carolina UniversityEdgecombe Community CollegeEmory UniversityFurman UniversityGardner-Webb UniversityGaston CollegeGeorgia Regents

UniversityGeorgia TechJohns Hopkins UniversityKenyon CollegeLehigh UniversityLenoir-Rhyne UniversityLiberty UniversityLoyola University Meredith CollegeMount Holyoke CollegeNorth Carolina State UniversityNew Jersey Institute of TechnologyNorth Carolina Agricultural & Technical State UniversityNorthwestern UniversityPfeiffer UniversityPrinceton UniversitySaint Vincent CollegeSalem CollegeSt. Olaf CollegeUnited States Air Force Academy

United States Naval AcademyUniversity of AlabamaUniversity of California at BerkeleyUniversity of California at San DiegoUniversity of GeorgiaUniversity of Michigan- Ann ArborUniversity of North Carolina - AshevilleUniversity of North Carolina - Chapel HillUniversity of North Carolina - CharlotteUniversity of North Carolina - GreensboroUniversity of North Carolina - WilmingtonUniversity of Puget SoundVanderbilt UniversityVirginia Military InstituteVirginia TechWake Forest University

Representative college acceptances

Sophomore applicants complete a rigorous application process that requires 4 teacher and counselor evaluations, a sophomore SAT score, student essay questions, and transcript. Students are competitively selected for approximately 150 spaces for each class. An admissions committee selects the best applicants from across all of North Carolina’s congressional districts.

All courses are offered at the honors level or above. Semester courses are worth 1.0 credits and count towards the GPA. Symposium (0.5 credit) courses and non-credit bearing courses do not count towards GPA. If a student dual enrolls, the course appears on their local school transcript using public school course names, weighting, grade scales, and codes.

A D is NCSSM’s lowest grade and is considered failing.

300-349: Introductory level courses A = 5 quality points

350-399: Accelerated version of 300 level course; requires NCSSM prerequisite A = 5.5 quality points

400-449: Courses introductory college course level or to help students prepare for AP exam A = 6 NCSSM quality points

450-499: Courses that deal with topics beyond those of introductory college-level A = 6 NCSSM quality points

GPA is based on NCSSM’s quality point scale:

Math

Student selection and transcripts

Writing

Concentrations appear on a certificate at program completion:

• Certificate of Completion (any 4 courses)

• Arts and Sciences (any 6 courses)

• Computational Science

• Environment Energy and Sustainability

• Mathematics

• Societies and Global Studies

• Material Science and Engineering

• Human Health and Life Science

• Research Process

• Applied STEM

Program concentrations